Letter: If US citizens don't need guns, neither does law enforcement

Posted: January 5, 2013 - 6:49pm

My family and I grieve for the parents of the children slain during an attack by a mentally challenged person, including an attack on his mother. The parents deserve all the community support they are receiving. We pray for the healing of the parents, and for knowing all the slain children are in heaven.

That being said, we as a free nation must avoid knee-jerk reactions to this tragedy. Democrats throughout history are always the first to jump to badly misguided conclusions about what is good for their subjects.

In this case, the president, Diane Feinstein, Mayor (Michael) Bloomberg (of New York) and the rest of the Democratic Party are the first to call for gun control. They parrot the idea that if they can take away our rights we will be “safer.”

Unfortunately, the number of European theater combat troops are almost gone — which would serve to remind us of the errors of gun control. They witnessed firsthand the atrocities that occur when only the government and police have firearms.

Politicians like President Barack Obama, Feinstein and Bloomberg want us to trade our freedom for security.

I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who said, paraphrasing: If we trade our rights for security, we have neither.

Politicians, especially Obama, understand that if they can take away that one freedom, then the rest of the rights we have as citizens of the United States of America can be quickly eliminated — especially, since Michelle Obama recently stated that Obama wasn’t through changing America, and not one person in the media questions her motive for making that statement.

It is imperative that each citizen ensures their employees (our representatives to local, state and federal governments) know they are not to fall for knee-jerk reactions promoted by Democrats. We must do this while we still have this right. Our employees need to understand that if our right to own firearms is eliminated, then these same rights must be removed from all law enforcement agencies (local, county, state and federal).

The reason is intuitively obvious — if citizens are not armed, there is not one valid reason for law enforcement to be armed.